| CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY 11/20/16 |
| Hello again from Germany!
(won't ship until December)
I've been meaning to do this for a while - paint an example of how value does all the work but color gets the credit. After painting this one above, I did this other version where all the colors are in the right family, but the values are mostly wrong. You can see how the colors are still interesting, but nothing holds together - the scene is only vaguely 3-dimensional. Honestly, I could have (and meant to) push it a lot further (make the values WAY wrong), but my brain pushed back against it. I will try again someday.
Value is the number ONE thing I end up helping my students with. If you want your painting to look 3-D, you've got to get the values right.
While we are here in Germany, we find ourselves needing to understand a lot of German. Duh. Since I don't know all the words (understatement of the year), I end up letting the German sort of wash over me, and trying to get the gist, looking up words when I'm lost. By the end of the day my brain is spilling out of my ears. I'm sleeping 10 hours at night and still exhausted by 8pm!
We are here for one more week and then we begin the long journey home. 1 day in the train. 1 day in the plane. And one day in the car. Verrückt (crazy)!
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